BUTTERMILK - CHOCOLATE CAKE & STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM

For Glenn - Here's a GREAT chocolate cake recipe AND strawberry ice cream recipe. Also you can soak chicken in buttermilk overnight for fried chicken. A lot of baking recipes call for sour cream, you can sub-out an equal amount of buttermilk. You can use it for pancakes, ranch dressing (Hidden Valley packet).

CHOCOLATE CAKE -

1-2/3 C Cake Flour

1/2 C Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

1 T Baking Powder

1/2 tsp. salt

1-1/3 C Sugar

1 Stick of Butter

3 large egg yolks (now you're gonna need ideas for egg whites!)

1 large egg

1C buttermilk

1 C mini Semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350F. Butter and flour a cake pan. Sift first 4 ingredients (I put it through a strainer on to parchment paper). In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat sugar & butter until fluffy. Add in egg & yolks until well blended. Alternate adding in 1/3 of the flour with 1/2 of the buttermilk until everything is well combined. Mix in the chocolate chips.

Bake for an hour +/- until a skewer inserted into the center comes out with a few crumbs attached. Cool, cut around the pan, remove to a plate...Serve with vanilla ice cream and/or whipped cream. This is so yummy it doesn't need icing!

STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM - I haven't tested this...I just received it last week from my mom - she has a stack of recipes this one is from Better Homes & Gardens 1980!!!

2 C Buttermilk

1-1/2 C Strawberry Jam

Stir ingredients together. Pour into a pyrex dish - freeze until firm. Cut up and place in a chilled electric mixer bowl. Whip until fluffy. Return to tray - cover and freeze until firm. (Alternatively you can use an ice cream maker if you have it.)